Syawal 1429H

Posted under Celebrations, Take a break

There would be only about five days more before all Muslims around the world would celebrate Syawal 1429H. Seemed like it was only yesterday that we started to fast, and now, one could only imagine the feast that the family would prepare for that day. I can’t wait to eat the ketupat pulut that my mom would make, and it would, undoubtedly, be so good with the rendang or any chicken curry that Mama  would cook the night before.

My mom told me that she baked some cookies, namely kuih makmur (though she had some gripe about it), kuih daisy(another gripe, hopefully she gets it sorted today heh), and kuih samperit. I don’t bake any cookies because we are here, and there is no oven here, like I already mentioned in this entry. I know that there is couple of cookies that I am interested to bake once we get home, but mom said I shouldn’t bother. I would be wasting time slaving in the kitchen when I should be, instead, visiting families and friends. She is right, of course.

But I couldn’t go about without something prepared, should anyone care to visit. I think I would be making some fried peanuts covered with spicy batter and another thing. Should probably cook some rendang and bring it home, while I am at it. We’ll have to figure out some contingency plan since I don’t think that I would want to cook come the second day of raya, you know what I am saying? To cook something here, and haul it back home would take some plans, at least for an amateur like me. So, I’ll just see how it goes.

And we have not decided when to go home. Would it be good to travel couple of days before raya? The day before? What about the night before? I knew that traffic could get nightmarish. I just don’t know how bad it would be. Whom should I refer to eh? Anybody had any experience going down south for eid? Share your experience, please?

Ah well. I shouldn’t even asked for people’s opinions since I think a lot of people is already on their raya break already, being this is already Thursday and all. So, forget I ask tee hee. We would have to just forge ahead, any day, I guess

And our travel plans would have to wait until I picked up my couple of baju kurungs. It sent it out on the second week of puasa, ok. I was so lucky that these couple of tailors (hahaha, I had to send it to two different tailors since none of them were willing to take two pairs hehe… ), and they promised me that I could pick them up either on Friday (tomorrow!!) or Saturday. Whichever day is fine, as long as they had it done, kan? I thought they were quite cheap since the one that the husband wanted to go to initially would costs him 160 bucks per baju. Gila ke apa paying that much? And they would charge 80 for Tia’s baju. I am like, no way jose! That would be one of the times that I wished that I knew how to sew my own baju kurung. Just plain baju kurung for me and the daughter. Or maybe learning how to sew baju melayu for the husband, too. That would be very nice, but then where would I go learn how to sew baju melayu that would not cost me an arm and a leg, eh?

This was supposed a short entry on Eid, and I had go on and on about everything else! OK, lest I kept on rambling,

Selamat Hari Raya Eidul Fitri buat semua rakan taulan dan keluarga. Kami sekeluarga ingin memohon ampun dan maaf jika ada ketelanjuran bahasa, ada kecacatan di dalam kelaku yang telah menyakiti hati anda. Pandulah dengan cermat semasa pulang ke kampung halaman, kerana kita tahu ramai pemandu yang rabun mata di luar sana